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What Is Business Casual

(Springfield, MA) -- On Wednesday I blogged about summer dress code at some workplaces. This raises the issue of what is business casual? There seems to be much confusion, especially among men, as to what this really means. Tie or no tie? Dress shirt or polo shirt? Dress pants or blue jeans. Face it, most guys are not really comfortable making these kinds of decisions. On work days we just reach into the closet and grab a shirt and pants hanging in the 'work section' we've created. When we get home at the end of the day we grab a shirt and pants from the 'everything else but work section'. Throw in a concept like business casual and we are bound to go off the rails.

Part of the problem is that women have more clothing options than guys. What would happen if a man showed up with sleeveless V-neck? He would be laughed out of the office. That is why clothing like that is not in a man's closet. Women are used to options. Give men options and you've got a mess. Until they start making Garanimals for men this will always be an issue. So back we go for more examples of business casual from the school of one picture is worth a thousand words.